Upgrading an old .NET app doesn’t have to mean chasing broken builds and cryptic errors. Yet for many developers, a simple version bump turns into hours of dependency conflicts and manual fixes. Modernization isn’t just about staying current. Older frameworks can introduce security risks, slow performance, and block …

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Building and Running Custom Models Is Still Hard Running AI models locally is still hard. Even as open-source LLMs grow more capable, actually getting them to run on your machine, with the right dependencies, remains slow, fragile, and inconsistent. There’s two sides to this challenge: Model creation and optimization: …

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This blog post introduces two major enhancements to Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that strengthen security and storage capabilities for large-scale machine learning infrastructure. The new features include customer managed key (CMK) support for encrypting EBS volumes with organization-controlled encryption keys, and Amazon …

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In May, we talked about the evolution of GitHub Copilot from a coding assistant into an AI powered peer programmer. Since then, GitHub has taken a major step forward - becoming an open platform for agentic devel Link to article: …

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In this post, I will illustrate how applying platform engineering principles to generative AI unlocks faster time-to-value, cost control, and scalable innovation. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accelerating-generative-ai-applications-with-a-platform-engineering-approach/

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[alert type="important" heading="UPDATE November 17: We're excited to announce that the Teams AI Library is now called the Microsoft Teams SDK."]The Teams SDK, now generally available in C# and JavaScript and in public preview for Python, remains a developer’s one-stop-shop to build anything, …

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In the past, moving to the next major version of Visual Studio could take hours, sometimes days, to recreate your dev environment the way you like it. Visual Studio 2026 makes it easier than ever to stay current with the latest productivity features, performance improvements, and security fixes all without disrupting …

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The bridge between agent innovation and enterprise readiness While teams can build an agent in just a few days, deployin Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/from-innovation-to-enterprise-trust-with-microsoft-agent-365

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The MSSQL Extension for VS Code continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more consistent, and more developer-friendly. In version v1.37.0, we’re announcing the Public Preview of Edit Data, Link to article: …

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The latest AI model from Google, Gemini 3 Pro, is now live in JetBrains IDEs. From day one, it powers AI Chat and soon will be available in Junie, our coding agent, giving you smarter reasoning, stronger instruction following, and seamless integration into your workflow. What’s new Gemini 3 Pro shows clear improvements …

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GitHub Copilot is taking a major step forward with expanded, deeply integrated support for JetBrains and Eclipse — bringing a new generation of agentic, intelligent capabilities directly into your favorite Java IDEs. This release strengthens Copilot’s cross-IDE experience, unifies agentic workflows, and unlocks m Link …

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We are happy to share that DiskANN vector indexing is now in public preview across Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. DiskANN is a cutting-edge algorithm for efficient vector similarity search, making it ideal for powering recommendation systems Link to article: …

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We’re excited to announce two updates to Azure Cosmos DB fleets: Fleet pools – now generally available Fleet analytics – now in public preview Azure Cosmos DB fleets enables developers to build scalable, isolated, and cost-effective multi-tenant or Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Today, Link to article: …

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We’re excited to announce the Public Preview of a significant enhancement to the Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Migration extension for Visual Studio Code—introducing online migration capability! This update makes it easier than ever to migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure Doc Link to article: …

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Starting today, you can download the second EAP release for MPS 2025.3 and try all the latest updates. DOWNLOAD MPS 2025.3 EAP 2 This release includes several noteworthy improvements: JavaDoc language overhaul The JavaDoc language has been completely migrated to use the jetbrains.mps.lang.text language for text …

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Running a Chat UI Agent doesn’t have to involve a complicated setup. By combining Docker with the Vercel AI SDK, it’s possible to build and launch a conversational interface in a clean, reproducible way. Docker ensures that the environment is consistent across machines, while the Vercel AI SDK provides the tools for …

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Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This is the fourth post in The Ultimate Guide to Successfully Adopting Kotlin in a Java-Dominated …

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At JetBrains, we love seeing the developer community grow and thrive. That’s why we support open-source projects that make a real difference — the ones that help developers learn, build, and create better software together. We’re proud to back open-source maintainers with free licenses and to contribute to initiatives …

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In this post I describe a solution to .NET "releasing too quickly": just pay for support of older versions, such as HeroDevs' Never Ending Support for .NET 6 Link to article: https://andrewlock.net/companies-using-dotnet-need-to-suck-it-up-and-pay-for-support/

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You can't really argue against the importance of performance in any application. Even if the system is not time-critical, efficient and time-saving operations are cornerstones of the system. Data fetching is the primary step for improving the performance of most applications. If you use Entity Framework Core (EF Link …

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